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Development of commercial and business enterprizes, companies and corporations

Making of the Modern World
Remote access requires Oxford SSO. "the history of Western trade, encompassing the coal, iron, and steel industries, the railway industry, the cotton industry, banking and finance, and the emergence of the modern corporation. "
Alternative name: MOME

"The Making of the Modern World: Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850" provides digital facsimile images on every page of 61,000 works of literature on economic and business published from 1450 through 1850. Full-text searching on more than 12 million pages provides researchers unparalleled access to this vast collection of material on commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, trade and transport.

Turner: The development of English company law before 1900
Open Access By John D Turner, (2017) QUCEH Working Paper Series, No. 2017-01,
The constitution and finance of English, Scottish and Irish joint-stock companies to 1720
Requires Oxford SSO for remote access. (3v, 1910-1912) Available electronically via Making of Modern Law.

Select charters of trading companies, A.D. 1530-1707 by ed. Cecil T. Carr.
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link
Publication Date: (1913) Selden Society v.28
Print copy is at Legal Hist S464.4a
Capitalism Before Corporations : the morality of business associations and the roots of commercial equity and law by Andreas Televantos
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link
ISBN: 9780198870340
Publication Date: 2021
Print copy at Legal Hist T269.8a if preferred
The English business company after the Bubble act, 1720-1800 by By Armand Budington DuBois
Call Number: KN261.DUB 1938
ISBN: 0374923620
Publication Date: 1938
(1938)
The historical foundations of modern company law by RR Formoy
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link
Publication Date: 1923
Print copy is at Legal Hist F726
The history of corporate finance : the development of Anglo-American securities markets, laws, and financial practices, theories and laws by edited by Robert E. Wright ; advisory editor Richard Sylla
Call Number: Order from Bookstack via ASR
ISBN: 1851967494
Publication Date: 2003
6 volumes v.1 Developement of Securities Markets -- v.2 Public Policy -- v.3 Limited Liability -- v.4 Corporate Finance in Practice -- v.5 Corporate Finance in Theory -- v.6 Corporate Finance in Theory, Index.
Industrializing English law : entrepreneurship and business organization, 1720-1844 by Ron Harris.
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link
ISBN: 0521662753
Publication Date: 2000
Print copy is in HFL Upper Gladstone Link KD2049 HAR 2000
Making Commercial Law Through Practice 1830-1970 by Ross Cranston
Call Number: Legal Hist C891a
ISBN: 9781107198890
Publication Date: 2021
The New River: a Legal History by Bernard Rudden
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this book online via title link
ISBN: 9780198254973
Publication Date: 1985
Print copy is at Legal Hist R914a
One hundred years of limited liability companies in England. by Lionel Leonard Cohen
Call Number: KN265.4.COH 1957
Publication Date: 1957
The Oxford history of the laws of England volume XII 1820-1914 Private Law by Cornish, William
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ISBN: 0199239754
Publication Date: 2010
Print copy is at Legal Hist O98q/12.
Summary of Content
PT ONE: Property Stuart Anderson 1
PT TWO: Contract Michael Lobban 295
PT THREE: Commercial Law Michael Lobban 611

PART FOUR:
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Michael Lobban 877

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